This could save you $24.95 and a headache. Movie coming soon. Stay tuned on how to save $8 and the popcorn.

http://www.equip.org/free/dn020.htm

http://www.equip.org/free/DC997.htm

http://www.csj.org/pub_csj/csj...krev112celestine.htm

harmonicconvergeance.org

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Redfield, as might be expected, hasn�t done enough homework to under�stand what a conservative priest, or any informed Christian, might find objec�tionable in the self-deifying mysticism of his Manuscript. So instead of an interesting adversary, he has created a robed redneck on a power trip. In doing so he has also exposed a pervasive and condescending attitude in the New Age movement: anyone who doesn�t buy this world view is an unenlightened hin�drance to global progress.

Hee hee. That's well-put!

Actually, I didn't take offense at the implicitly anti-Christian stuff in the book -- not nearly as much as I did with The Da Vinci Code, which just reeks with anti-Catholicism. I thought it (CP) a clever way to present a few helpful attitudes and practices and pretty much blew off the rest as a device. The message wasn't especially earth-shaking or profound, imo, and the huge success of the book seems as much a testament to the spiritual hunger in our culture as to the worthiness of Redfield's writing.

The latest offering from Celestine corporation:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi...654-3979158?v=glance

Your inner apologist is showing, Doctor Phil, since that same paragraph jumped out at me.

This book I would give three stars, since there is a lengthy bibliography and recommended reading list, which could give someone a good backround in
many areas if they were to read them all. What is conspicuously absent is almost all Christian mystics excepting several of the most obvious.

Michael Murphy is pretty sharp, and the sum is greater than Redfield's parts alone would be.

Most reviewers, as you'll notice were underwhelmed.

Ho, hum, maybe I'll see the movie when it gets to the $2 multiplex.

The insights themselves aren't so far off, but "evolving" man is the emphasis rather than an improvable but fallible cocreator and steward.

Remember Stigmata where the Dominicans, Jesuits and Franciscans were all hiding a third of the Gospel of Thomas from the masses so no one would know that the kingdom of God was within them?

Same idea, Shirley Maclaine's king-dumb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_MacLaine

I shouldn't knock Ms. MacLaine, as she is very talented. She represents the spiritual hunger which you speak of. Cele-brat-ies like the Beatles visiting the Maharishi after as Ringo said, "We had everything that money can buy, but that gets old after awhile." So money status and pleasure make for poor Gods at some point, and we seek to develop our
higher potentials. This cannot be done on one's own and seems to require the help of others and a
Higher Power of some kind. On this I can build a common ground with the New Agers.

I see two movements primarily, traditionalists who
find fundamentalisms confining and need breathing room to grow, and those with plenty of room to grow, but lacking a firm foundation under it.

Gee, do you think they might get together and talk? Now that would really be something.